1757

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1720s  1730s  1740s  – 1750s –   1760s   1770s   1780s
Years:	1754 1755 1756 – 1757 – 1758 1759 1760

1757 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature ( Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries:   Canada – Great Britain –

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1757 (MDCCLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1757

January - June

• January 2 - Britain captures Calcutta.this was part of the fighting in the 7 year war/ french indian war.
• January 5 - Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Louis XV of France.
• March 14 - Seven Years' War: On-board the HMS Monarch, Royal Navy Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for breach of the Articles of War.
• May 6 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Prague: Frederick the Great defeats an Austrian army and begins to besiege the city.
• June 18 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Kolin: Frederick is defeated by an Austrian army under Marshal Daun, forcing him to evacuate Bohemia.
• June 23 - Battle of Plassey: 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.

July - December

• July 26 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Hastenbeck: An Anglo-Hanoverian army under the Duke of Cumberland is defeated by the French under Louis d'Estrées and forced out of Hanover.
• July 30 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: A Prussian army under Hans von Lehwald is defeated by the Russian army of Marshal Stepan Apraksin.
• August 3 - August 9 - French and Indian War: A French army under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm forces the English to surrender Fort William Henry. The French army's Indian allies slaughter the survivors for unclear reasons
• October 16 - Seven Years' War: Hungarian raiders plunder Berlin.
• October 30 - Osman III dies and is succeeded as Ottoman Sultan by Mustafa III.
• November 5 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Rossbach: Frederick defeats the French-Imperial army under the Duc de Soubise and Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen, forcing the French to withdraw from Saxony.
• November 22 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Breslau: An Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine defeats the Prussian army of Wilhelm of Brunswick-Bevern and forces the Austrians behind the Oder.
• December 6 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick defeats Prince Charles's Austrian army in what is generally considered the Prussian king's greatest tactical victory.

Ongoing events

• French and Indian War (1754-1763)
• Seven Years' War (1756-1763)

Births

1757 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1757 MDCCLVII
Ab urbe condita	2510
Armenian calendar	1206 ԹՎ ՌՄԶ
Assyrian calendar	6507
Bahá'í calendar	-87–-86
Bengali calendar	1164
Berber calendar	2707
British Regnal year	30 Geo. 2 – 31 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2301
Burmese calendar	1119
Byzantine calendar	7265–7266
Chinese calendar	丙子年十一月十二日 (4393/4453-11-12) — to — 丁丑年十一月廿一日 (4394/4454-11-21)
Coptic calendar	1473–1474
Ethiopian calendar	1749–1750
Hebrew calendar	5517–5518
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1813–1814
- Shaka Samvat	1679–1680
- Kali Yuga	4858–4859
Holocene calendar	11757
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	757–758
Iranian calendar	1135–1136
Islamic calendar	1170–1171
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 7 (宝暦7年)
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4090
Minguo calendar	155 before ROC 民前155年
Thai solar calendar	2300

• January 16 - Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1834)
• February 20 - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)
• April 9 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (d. 1833)
• May 30 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1844)
• June 18 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833)
• June 22 - George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798)
• July 20 - Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (d. 1811)
• August 9 - Thomas Telford, British Engineer & Architect (d. 1834)
• September 6 - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)
• October 9 - King Charles X of France (d. 1836)
• October 21 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816)
• November 1 - Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor (d. 1822)
• November 28 - William Blake, English poet (d. 1827)
• December 17 - Nathaniel Macon, American politician (d. 1837)
• December 25 - Benjamin Pierce, American politician (d. 1839)

Deaths

• January 9 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (born 1657)
• January 19 - Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (born 1664)
• March 1 - Edward Moore, English writer (born 1712)
• March 8 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (born 1701)
• March 12 - Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (born 1696)
• March 14 - John Byng, British admiral (executed) (born 1704)
• March 27 - Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (born 1717)
• May 6 - Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (born 1705)
• May 6 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (born 1683)
• May 6 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (born 1684)
• July 23 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (born 1685)
• August 28 - David Hartley, English philosopher (born 1705)
• October 17 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (born 1683)
• October 25 - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (born 1672)
• October 30 - Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (born 1699)
• November 12 - Colley Cibber, English poet (born 1671)
• December 11 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (born 1675)